Question Re: whant is the difference between role and group? in Technology Q&A

whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:28:31 GMT

in fact. a group means the a special role that have no any assigned functions

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:37:36 GMT

Hi ,

Role is a Content Template that consists of one or more Worksets.

Workset is a collection of Pages .

Pages r collection of Iviews

Iview ia a content provider.

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Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:47:33 GMT

thanks, but the what about Group?

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 03:48:31 GMT

thank! but I want to know what is the difference between role and group?

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:17:31 GMT

Imagine a Group as your project team say Team A. Team A can have many roles in the Portal such as user_admin, content_admin, and system_admin roles. Project members (SAP Portal users) assigned to Team A will be automatically assigned with all the roles in the Group. Therefore, instead of assigning those roles to user individually, you can configure them in a group to save future maintenance nightmare.

Hope this explains what the difference between Group and Role.

- Teecheu

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 11 Oct 2005 04:30:12 GMT

Hi Kang

The difference betwen Roles and Groups:

Roles

Roles are the largest semantic unit within the content objects. A role is a folder hierarchy comprising other content objects (worksets, pages, iViews). The contents of a role are based on the company structure and information requirements of the users of a company. Roles are assigned to users. This means that users can only access the content that is relevant for them if they have the appropriate role.

Groups

Groups contain users falling under the same catagory. For example let's say that you have a set of roles, role x and role y. You have to assign role x to users of type a (let these be users who can only view your portal and cannot make changes) and role y to users of type b (let these users be administrators). Then you can add the users of type a to a group and assign the role x to them. Similarly you can add the users of type b to another group and assign the role y to them. This rids you of the task of having to assign the two roles to each user type individually.

Hope you got the difference now.

Warm Regards

Priya

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Wed, 12 Oct 2005 09:43:29 GMT

Hi ,

Worksets are nothing but Groups ...

Foe Example your company may cateogarize different activities ...

Employee Activitites ,

Manager activities ,

Admn Activities ..

These are called Worksets .

That is ) Employee can't do admn activity.

Suppose if your Super user needs all the 3 worksets ,

and the supervisor needs first 2 .

So u can create 2 roles ,one for super user and one for supervisor .

I hope now u understood .

Rgds ,

Close this thread if this is sufficient .

Else revert back.

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 04:27:11 GMT

Group is nothing but a logical grouping of users, who share common job profile(in portal: they will need similar information access). for example: Active Employee group, Contract employee group etc.

Role dictates the information(iviews etc) which will be accessible to user.

Re: whant is the difference between role and group?

Former Member — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:38:15 GMT

Hi Kang

IS your problem solved? If so then please close the thread.

Best Regards

Priya